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Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

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weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:47 pm
gremlin wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:38 am
Horse wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:22 am [ the staff's sartorial elegance :D
For the record, I've posted on here previously (Pleasing purchase thread, IIRC) about a coat I bought in Modena, Italy some years back. Wasn't silly money, about Eur 120, I think. Always gets complimented upon when I wear it. Today, having worn it to the office, I've had three colleagues try it on, comment how nice it is and ask me where I got it from.

I casually inform them that I have a preferred gentleman's outfitter in Italy. :lol:
Is this a banker thing?

Why are you speaking to people?

Why would anyone ever ask to try on someone else's coat?
It's a thing called 'sociability'. You know, engaging with people, having conversations, empathising, interactions. That kinda thing.

I'm lead to believe it's an important trait in human development. I refer to my my previous post about the security guard I chose to interact with this morning. He could have stood their, like a miserable twat. Conversely, I could have rudely ignored his salutation. As it is, I believe we both benefited spiritually, albeit in a minor way, via our interaction.
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Re: Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

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gremlin wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:57 pm
weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:47 pm
gremlin wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:38 am

For the record, I've posted on here previously (Pleasing purchase thread, IIRC) about a coat I bought in Modena, Italy some years back. Wasn't silly money, about Eur 120, I think. Always gets complimented upon when I wear it. Today, having worn it to the office, I've had three colleagues try it on, comment how nice it is and ask me where I got it from.

I casually inform them that I have a preferred gentleman's outfitter in Italy. :lol:
Is this a banker thing?

Why are you speaking to people?

Why would anyone ever ask to try on someone else's coat?
It's a thing called 'sociability'. You know, engaging with people, having conversations, empathising, interactions. That kinda thing.

I'm lead to believe it's an important trait in human development.
Ummmm I'm not following

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gremlin wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:57 pm It's a thing called 'sociability'. You know, engaging with people, having conversations, empathising, interactions. That kinda thing.
Thank buggery for covid and home working :thumbup:
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weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:58 pm
gremlin wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:57 pm
weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:47 pm

Is this a banker thing?

Why are you speaking to people?

Why would anyone ever ask to try on someone else's coat?
It's a thing called 'sociability'. You know, engaging with people, having conversations, empathising, interactions. That kinda thing.

I'm lead to believe it's an important trait in human development.
Ummmm I'm not following

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I suspect that says more about you, sir, than it does about me.
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I am 12.
I'm doing some work for a foreign government department, which I shall not name as, well, nvm, but looking over a standard and it caused me to giggle

8.5.2.1 Effective penetration of ring
8.5.2.2 Width of ring
8.5.2.3 Size of opening in the ring
8.5.2.4 Collapse of ring
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MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 2:02 pm I am 12.
I'm doing some work for a foreign government department, which I shall not name as, well, nvm, but looking over a standard and it caused me to giggle

8.5.2.1 Effective penetration of ring
8.5.2.2 Width of ring
8.5.2.3 Size of opening in the ring
8.5.2.4 Collapse of ring
I used the phrase 'Ready-rubbed shag', so I win puerile Top Trumps.
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gremlin wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:57 pm
weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 1:47 pm
gremlin wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:38 am

For the record, I've posted on here previously (Pleasing purchase thread, IIRC) about a coat I bought in Modena, Italy some years back. Wasn't silly money, about Eur 120, I think. Always gets complimented upon when I wear it. Today, having worn it to the office, I've had three colleagues try it on, comment how nice it is and ask me where I got it from.

I casually inform them that I have a preferred gentleman's outfitter in Italy. :lol:
Is this a banker thing?

Why are you speaking to people?

Why would anyone ever ask to try on someone else's coat?
It's a thing called 'sociability'. You know, engaging with people, having conversations, empathising, interactions. That kinda thing.
Sounds like a long list of euphemisms to me....
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Someone bought me lunch today! At a restaurant just across from the school I've been at for just over three months! I didn't even know it was there FFS!!!

Basically he'd asked me what I was eating for lunch and I said a sandwich. So at lunchtime he said, come on, have a proper lunch with me and Christophe!! So I did! :D :D

Raviole
Trout mousseline (think that's the description)
and a Chocolate tart thingy

Haven't eaten so much for lunch in a very very long time!

Company was fun too - and I understood about 95% of the conversation, that was cool :D :D

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Maybe not so much happy as mildly amused.

Matey has splashed on on the new 2025 BMW S1000rrrrrr. He has a 2024 S1000rrrrrr with 1987 miles on the clock.

Reason for changing?

"I don't like the wings on my bike".

At least he's honest. :lol:
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Not so insignificant, but today my dog has made me incredibly happy as in the last 24 hours have seen him achieve two major milestones:

1. Last night he slept at my feet for the first time in nearly a month
2. He happily went for a run along the coastal path off lead with great attention to me and recall

The above are situation normal for the majority of the year with the exception of the time fireworks are being set off where instead he cowers in the darkest corner of the house for hours on end which leads to some very early morning walks so he can relieve himself without fear of overhead explosions…
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Good health care :)

For a while I've had excruciating pain in my shoulders. A year ago I did intensive course of physio which did bugger all. It just went by itself.
6 weeks ago it came back and they couldn't stop the intermittent pain.
They gave me steroids so I could ride at Portimao last weekend.

Was so bad today I went to the hospital, again.
Clever doctor decided to do an x-ray on my neck. By pure chance, the top traumatologist was in, so he came down to have a look.

He saw a problem in my neck, then asked for MRI scan and full neck/back X-ray.

So now we'll get to the bottom of it :)
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Decluttering the shed. Always good. The postie might grumble a bit tomorrow.
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Silly Car wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 5:23 pm Not so insignificant, but today my dog has made me incredibly happy as in the last 24 hours have seen him achieve two major milestones:

1. Last night he slept at my feet for the first time in nearly a month
2. He happily went for a run along the coastal path off lead with great attention to me and recall

The above are situation normal for the majority of the year with the exception of the time fireworks are being set off where instead he cowers in the darkest corner of the house for hours on end which leads to some very early morning walks so he can relieve himself without fear of overhead explosions…
Aye, ours is getting back to normal although I reckon night walks on the park will take a week or so to get back to.
I just walk him into town instead and it's training him to get used to more people, traffic and so on. Slight inconvenience but should help in the end.
And as for "Insignificant things that make me happy" today?
I drove past the house my mother rented since I was fifteen til she died (aged 90) last year (I'm 52 so it was a while) and the Japanese Acer (red maple basically) she planted in the garden when we moved in is still there, the gardens a bit unkempt but there's a kids pushbike and a few toys in it.
I'm pretty happy with that as its that circle of life thing, by the looks of it the place is a home to a family again.
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This dude is giving this Chopper for Children in Need.

I wonder what it's worth?

It's an iconic bike and a very rare unused one.
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Yorick wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:13 pm I wonder what it's worth?

It's an iconic bike and a very rare unused one.
Without the CIN pull on the heartstrings not a lot I would have said, it's one of the new safe versions of the copper, so a whole heap less than a proper old Choppers.
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MrLongbeard wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:31 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:13 pm I wonder what it's worth?

It's an iconic bike and a very rare unused one.
, it's one of the new safe versions
No nut cropper T bar gear change.
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cheb wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 4:21 pm Decluttering the shed. Always good. The postie might grumble a bit tomorrow.
Why - have you packaged up all the rubbish and affixed the "Return to sender" addresses from your junk-mail to it?
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MrLongbeard wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:31 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:13 pm I wonder what it's worth?

It's an iconic bike and a very rare unused one.
Without the CIN pull on the heartstrings not a lot I would have said, it's one of the new safe versions of the copper, so a whole heap less than a proper old Choppers.
yeah - I was wondering that - it hasn't got the one-piece saddle.
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Rockburner wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:47 pm
cheb wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 4:21 pm Decluttering the shed. Always good. The postie might grumble a bit tomorrow.
Why - have you packaged up all the rubbish and affixed the "Return to sender" addresses from your junk-mail to it?
No, just quite a few heavy boxen.. Junk mail gets used for lighting the fire.
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My colleague's out of office reply.

Any spaceships in it?


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